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Phase (matter)
About: Phase (matter) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 115645 publications have been published within this topic receiving 2107721 citations. The topic is also known as: phase of matter.
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TL;DR: In this article, the properties of a new family of metallic alloys which exhibit excellent glass forming ability are reported, where the critical cooling rate to retain the glassy phase is of the order of 10 K/s or less.
Abstract: We report on the properties of one example of a new family of metallic alloys which exhibit excellent glass forming ability. The critical cooling rate to retain the glassy phase is of the order of 10 K/s or less. Large samples in the form of rods ranging up to 14 mm in diameter have been prepared by casting in silica containers. The undercooled liquid alloy has been studied over a wide range of temperatures between the glass transition temperature and the thermodynamic melting point of the equilibrium crystalline alloy using scanning calorimetry. Crystallization of the material has been studied. Some characteristic properties of the new material are presented. The origins of exceptional glass forming ability of these new alloys are discussed.
2,305 citations
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01 Jan 1993
2,081 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a detailed study of the phase diagram of suspensions of colloidal spheres which interact through a steep repulsive potential is presented. But it is not a detailed analysis of the colloidal glass phase.
Abstract: Suspensions of spherical colloidal particles in a liquid show a fascinating variety of phase behaviour which can mimic that of simple atomic liquids and solids. ‘Colloidal fluids’1–4, in which there are significant short-range correlations between the positions of neighbouring particles, and ‘colloidal crystals’5–7, which have long-range spatial order, have been investigated extensively. We report here a detailed study of the phase diagram of suspensions of colloidal spheres which interact through a steep repulsive potential. With increasing particle concentration we observed a progression from colloidal fluid, to fluid and crystal phases in coexistence, to fully crystallized samples. At the highest concentrations we obtained very viscous samples in which full crystallization had not occurred after several months and in which the particles appeared to be arranged as an amorphous ‘colloidal glass’. The empirical phase diagram can be reproduced reasonably well by an effective hard-sphere model. The observation of the colloidal glass phase is interesting both in itself and because of possible relevance to the manufacture of high-strength ceramics8.
1,881 citations
13 May 1993
TL;DR: The phase of condensed matter known as spin glasses has become a vital and productive area of research as mentioned in this paper, and experiment has suggested unusual effects which have brought the theoretical study of the spin glass Problem Onto The Same Footing As The Experimental Study.
Abstract: The phase of condensed matter known as spin glasses has become a vital and productive area of research. Historically, experiment has suggested unusual effects which have brought the theoretical study of the spin Glass Problem Onto The Same Footing As The Experimental Study. Experiments in the late 1960s on magnetic alloys presented interesting effe
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TL;DR: In this article, the temperature dependence of positron lifetimes in both the brittle and plastic phases of trimethylacetic (pivalic) acid was examined using the positron lifetime technique.
1,640 citations